标题: 《港澳轮渡》:大英帝国在战后香港的创伤寓言
Ferry to Hong Kong: Imperial British Trauma and Allegory in Postwar Hong Kong
作者: 吴国坤
Kenny Kwok-Kwan NG
关键字: 英国电影;香港电影;冷战旅游;东方主义;奥森.威尔斯;苏丝黄的世界;英美语系跨国电影;British cinema;Hong Kong cinema;Cold War tourism;Orientalism;Orson Welles;The World of Suzie Wong;Anglo-American transnational cinema
公开日期: 十二月-2024
出版社: 国立阳明交通大学出版社
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Press
摘要: 《港澳轮渡》(Ferry to Hong Kong)在1959 年阳历新年前夕在香港上映。这部高成本的电影,是英国兰克电影制作公司(The Rank Organisation)的首部宽银幕电影,电影主人公是一位滞留在来往香港和澳门的渡轮上十个月的无国籍漂流者。这部电影在全球票房惨淡,除了因为英美合制出现矛盾,娱乐与政治宣传的不和谐也让叙事支离破碎。在亚洲冷战的脉络下,英国通过电影软实力的渠道来重建国家尊严,尤其是1956 年苏伊士运河危机让大英帝国走向衰亡崩解,世界霸主地位逐渐被美国取代。电影把一位反英雄角色转变成一位英国勇士,从中国(共产党)海盗手上解救船上的乘客和难民。这艘沉没的船是英国海洋殖民霸主的一个创伤寓言,浪漫和自恋式地缅怀着大英帝国在盛世时期对亚洲和南半球辉煌灿烂的影响力。
On New Year’s Eve 1959, Ferry to Hong Kong was screened in Hong Kong. Produced by Rank as its first CinemaScope feature, the big-budget movie tells tale of a stateless drifter who was stuck for ten months on the ferry sailing between Hong Kong and Macau. The film was a flop across the globe not only because of the splitting Anglo-American cooperation, but also because the demands of entertainment and propaganda clashed, falling apart in the film’s storytelling. Positioned within Cold War contexts, however, Ferry to Hong Kong could be seen as British cultural-diplomatic response through cinematic soft power to reestablish national assurance on Asian Cold War fronts following the 1956 Suez Canal debacle that witnessed the death of Britain’s imperial might at the hands of the Eisenhower administration. But the film turns the anti-hero into a paragon of British gallantry who saves the passengers and refugees from the hands of Chinese (communist) pirates. The sinking ferry-boat is the traumatic device to recall British naval war stories and retell romantic and narcissistic tales of British valor and international influence in Asia and Global South.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6752/JCS.202412_(39).0004
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/163371
ISSN: 1816-0514
DOI: 10.6752/JCS.202412_(39).0004
期刊: 文化研究
Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies
Issue: 39
起始页: 93
结束页: 120
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